These common people were easily influenced by these small welfare policies and food distribution asures. If the Soviet regi had no proper response, the provisional governnt's advantages would grow bigger and bigger.
At this ti, Germany obviously couldn't offer the sa generous conditions as the Allies. Germans were severely depleted by the war and naturally couldn't afford to use huge amounts of funds and resources to support Russia.
This indirectly strengthened the Russians' confidence in continuing the war since there is financial and material support from Britain and France, while Russia can just maintain a defensive posture on the front line.
Since the Soviet regi couldn't offer the sa welfare benefits as the provisional governnt, the public's sentint has visibly shifted in favor of the provisional governnt.
In order not to lose support from the working class and common people, the Soviet regi could only criticize the provisional governnt's reluctance to withdraw from the war.
Because most Russians had received tangible benefits, their desire to withdraw from the war wasn't as strong.
Actually, the public didn't oppose the war itself, but the Tsarist regi's disregard for the lives of the Russian civilians for the sake of the war.
If Nicholas II could provide supplies to the workers and common people earlier and effectively control Russian prices, perhaps the great revolution would not have happened.
Unable to offer actual material benefits, the Soviet regi had to find other ways, like implenting the eight-hour work system, which the working class cared about.
Of course, it wasn't exactly an implentation since Tsarist Russia already had an eight-hour work system as well.
But the eight-hour work system in Tsarist Russia was more of a formality. Before the war, the average work ti for Russian workers had already exceeded ten hours, and after the war broke out, it widely surpassed twelve hours.
The Soviet regi announced the protection of the eight-hour work system and strictly implented it in the Moscow region, eliminating all demands for unpaid overti.
If more than eight hours were required, double overti pay for the additional work hours was needed, and the total work hours shouldn't exceed ten hours per day or sixty hours per week.
This system did win the favor of many workers, after all, work hours and wages were the top concerns for workers collectively.
Besides the eight-hour work system, the Soviet regi also established a food distribution system, centralizing the distribution of food, livestock, and various supplies in the Moscow region, ensuring that all common people could get a fair share of resources.
The war had a trendous impact on Russia.
One significant reason for the bourgeoisie's provisional governnt to eventually gain power was that a large number of rural populations and working-class people were conscripted into the military and sent to the frontlines.
Those who remained in Saint Petersburg and Moscow were mainly factory owners, nobility, and the upper-middle class, who smoothly gained power in the revolutionary governnt.
Due to the massive conscription of rural population and workers, Russian agricultural production was severely affected.
According to the previous Russian governnt's statistics, Russia's cultivated land area had decreased by at least 10 million acres, livestock numbers had dropped from 18 million to about 13 million, and total grain inco had decreased by about a quarter.
The establishnt of the centralized distribution system by the Soviet regi was also a last resort. If the Moscow region's resources were not centrally distributed, a large number of common people wouldn't be able to access supplies and wouldn't firmly support the Soviet regi.
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